On 3 Sep 1998 13:59:56 GMT, ag24 at mole.bio.cam.ac.uk (Aubrey de Grey)
wrote:
>I'm very pleased that emphasis is being laid on the difference between
>showing that a phenomenon will eventually cause aging and showing that
>it causes aging in a currently normal lifetime. However, I'm afraid
Well, in my opinion what needs to be determined is whether telomere
shortening effects human beings during a normal life time or if it
will only effect a person that is hundreds or thousands of years old.
My guess, from what I have read so far, is that telomere shortening
does cause at least some of the aspects of aging in humans with normal
current life spans. That is only a guess, maybe or maybe not an
educated one, but I hope that research is done to support or refute
it.
>we do not yet know for certain that mitochondrial mutations are causal
>factors in normal aging (ie that they cause the macroscopic pathologies
>which comprise aging). We can say with confidence that free radical